Match the books in List I with the authors in List II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | Stree Purush Tulana | I. | Daya Pawar |
| B. | The city | II. | Begum Rokeya |
| C. | Analogy of Religion | III. | Tarabai Shinde |
| D. | Sultana’s Dream | IV. | Bishop Joseph Butler |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
(A) Stree Purush Tulana — this matches (III) Tarabai Shinde.
(B) The city — this matches (I) Daya Pawar.
(C) Analogy of Religion — this matches (IV) Bishop Joseph Butler.
(D) Sultana’s Dream — this matches (II) Begum Rokeya.
NCERT (2025-26): “5.3 Struggle for women’s equality and rights … The deplorable and unjust treatment of the Hindu upper caste widows was a major issue taken up by the social reformers. Ranade used the writings of scholars such as Bishop Joseph Butler whose Analogy of Religion and Three Sermons on Human Nature dominated the moral philosophy syllabus of Bombay University in the 1860s.…” “Stree Purush Tulana (or Comparison of Men and Women) was written by a Maharashtrian housewife, Tarabai Shinde, as a protest against the double standards of a male dominated society.…” “…Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in a well-to-do Bengali Muslim family, and was lucky to have a husband who was very liberal in outlook and encouraged her education first in Urdu and later in Bengali and English.…” “…when she wrote Sultana’s Dream to test her abilities in English.…”
Box 5.2: The City, by Daya Pawar (NCERT 2025-26) |
